A produtividade de regras de formação de palavras no português de Moçambique

Abstract

The present work is a study on Derivational Morphology in Portuguese from Mozambique. It is about studying, from a corpus of words collected in a national information organ, which processes and which rules of word formation by suffixation are more productive. Therefore, it is a descriptive work, in the sense that initial research hypotheses are not formulated. The data were collected in the newspaper ''Notícias', in its 1990 editions, and, in addition to the author's lexical competence, were compared with three European Portuguese dictionaries and with six native Portuguese speakers who had never been in the country or in another official Portuguese language, in addition to Portugal. The reason for comparing the data collected with dictionaries and native Portuguese speakers is that European Portuguese is taken as a standard of reference. From the analysis that is done, the following conclusions are reached: that the nominalization process is the most productive of the three known processes - nomirialization, verbalization and adjectivation. As for the training rules of. words concerns, one comes to the conclusion that, in nominalizations, the most productive rule is: [[X] tion]N; in verbalizations, the most productive is the [[X]ize]V rule; and in the adjectives the poverty of applicability does not allow a conclusion about the most productive. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)